Possible Microsoft Litigation Over NTFS Support In Linux

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From: Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 01:55:28 PDT

Check out item 13 in Kernel Traffic #86 at:

  http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt20000925_86.epl#13

>Jeff V. Merkey announced, "Microsoft has threatened us with litigation
>due to our support of Linux NTFS development, and we have dissolved
>our NTFS licensing agreements with Microsoft in response to their
>demands that cease to support Linux development. Microsoft demanded
>that we delete any and all NTFS tools we had been providing to
>customers based on their intellectual property. As a result of this,
>we can no longer provide this tool in the United States." [...]

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